Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

The Virginia Glee Club 140th Anniversary Weekend was last weekend, and was so wonderful that I fell behind in my work and am still catching up. But what a way to fall behind. I drove down from Massachusetts to DC on Thursday, where I spent time at the Jefferson Memorial before catching up with my [...]

Over the weekend I did some curation of the Virginia Glee Club history wiki, pulling together some previously posted images into new categories and scanning a few large format posters. You can now see all the posters and program covers that we’ve scanned in one place. Looking at all of them in order, I’m reminded [...]

The UVA Magazine posted a great collection of stories from women at the University of Virginia. One area that they didn’t dive into was the history of women’s choral music at the University. The earliest reference we have to women of the University community participating in Glee Club performances comes in 1944, when a “Madrigal [...]

The official poster for next month’s Virginia Glee Club 140th anniversary/reunion weekend has been released. Looking forward to seeing many of you there. My travel plans have just firmed up–I’ll be driving down on the 17th (um, does anyone in the DC area have a couch I can crash on that Thursday night?), then heading [...]

On the eve of the 140th anniversary of the Virginia Glee Club, whose founding date (1871) makes it one of the seven oldest collegiate glee clubs in the United States, it feels curmudgeonly to point out the relative lack of hard evidence for the 1871 founding of the Club, and the abundance of pointers to [...]

It seems like a very long time since I’ve sat down to write anything longer than a tweet or a bookmark. The usual reasons apply–family pressures, work getting crazy, etc.–but a big part of the reason is simply that I’ve been blocked. A big part of what I used to write about used to be [...]

The Virginia spectator – Google Books New stuff in the Google Books index for 2011, including an item from an 1879 UVA Magazine article about Woodrow Wilson in the Virginia Glee Club. (tags: virginiagleeclub) The Wilderness Below Your Feet – NYTimes.com The infrastructure beneath all major cities forms a completely different layer of reality. It’s [...]

Glee Club, 1891 In 1891 the Club was received with little enthusiasm. Includes a season schedule. Glee Club, 1870 Notes about a “Glee Club” at UVA in February of 1870! (tags: virginiagleeclub uva)

Today’s Virginia Glee Club history update is about one of the classic University of Virginia football songs, and the man who wrote it–the University’s second Jewish professor. Linwood Lehman wasn’t a Glee Club member–he was an undergraduate during a period where the Glee Club was mostly dormant, graduating in 1915 (the club had just revived [...]

The Virginia Glee Club | CD Baby Check it out–you can buy MP3s of the Virginia Glee Club’s Songs of Virginia on CDBaby! (tags: virginiagleeclub music mp3) Make: Online : John Edgar Park has a trigger mouth! Is it just me or does JP look more Tom Waits-esque every time I see him? (tags: johnpark [...]

Not satisfied with my vinyl adventures, I expanded my repertoire of obscure audio formats yesterday with the acquisition of a … cassette deck. I haven’t had one since my nonfunctional bookshelf stereo from college went to the curb, some time before I started to transfer all my media to digital, and I was worried that [...]

This week, the documentary The Parking Lot Movie hit the iTunes store for download or rent. A movie about the Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville and the philospher-kings who work there, it features an appearance by Our Very Own D.R. Tyler Magill (that’s him above), with music by another friend, Sam Retzer. I have rarely [...]

It’s first and ten for a new season of Virginia football, and for the first time in several years my heart is full of more than the usual blind optimism. With a new coach at the helm, I feel as though Virginia has a chance to shake loose the malaise that’s gripped the team for [...]

Today’s odd moment in Virginia Glee Club history comes by way of that “other” official Virginia song, “The Cavalier Song.” While most alums today are familiar only with “The Good Old Song,” that collectively authored song-about-a-song set to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne” by Glee Club alum E.A. Craighill and sung by swaying Hoos [...]

I was pleased to download and check out the University of Virginia’s new iPhone app. “One stop” doesn’t begin to cover the scope of this app — Grounds directory, news, alumni clubs, reunions, alumni magazine, the Cavalier Daily, sports scores (and notifications)… …and music. I was even more pleased to find the Virginia Glee Club‘s [...]